A composite absorbent body for absorbing a liquid and for use as a sanitary article contains a polymeric absorber equipped with a hydrophilic continuous framework and continuous pores. The ratio of pore volume from pores having a pore radius of 1 ?m or higher in the polymeric absorber is at least 90% of the pore volume of all pores.

The invention provides for methods, devices, and systems for pyrolyzing biomass. A pyrolysis unit can be used for the pyrolysis of biomass to form gas, liquid, and solid products. The biomass materials can be selected such that an enhanced biochar is formed after pyrolysis. The biomass can be pyrolyzed under specified conditions such that a selected biochar core is formed. The pyrolysis process can form a stable biochar core that is inert and/or resistant to degradation. The biochar or biochar core can be functionalized to form a functionalized biochar or functionalized biochar core. Functionalization can include post-pyrolysis treatments such as supplementation with microbes or physical transformations including annealing and/or activation.

Provided is an adsorbent used for removing carbon dioxide from a gas containing carbon dioxide, the adsorbent containing cerium oxide and has a pore diameter having a differential pore volume of 0.0085 cm.sup.3/g- or more in a region where a pore diameter is 7 or less in pore distribution measured by Horvath-Kawazoe method.

An engine control system configured to operate an engine is configured to predict an expected duty cycle including an expected demand from the engine, and calculate two or more future operating conditions, each future operating condition including engine control parameters that, when used to control the engine, are expected to result in the engine meeting the expected demand. One of the future operating conditions is selected, and a present operation of the engine is adjusted in response to the selected future operating condition. A vehicle and/or offroad diesel apparatus may comprise the engine control system.

Method for recovering a target protein from a feedstock comprising said target protein and at least one impurity compound selected from host cell proteins (HCP), DNA, RNA or other nucleic acid, the target protein being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h1 and the impurity compound being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h2, wherein R.sub.h1>R.sub.h2, comprising the following steps (i) to (iv) and optionally step (v): (i) providing a polymeric mesh comprising at least one crosslinked polymer containing positively charged amino groups, wherein the polymer has a pore size exclusion limit Rhi which can be set variably; (ii) adapting the variable pore size exclusion limit Rhi of the polymeric mesh such that R.sub.h2<R.sub.hi and R.sub.h1>R.sub.hi; (iii) contacting the polymeric mesh with the feedstock; (iv) separating the polymeric mesh containing the retained impurity compound from the feedstock containing the excluded target protein.

Disclosed is a separation material comprising: a porous polymer particle containing a crosslinked polymer containing a structural unit derived from a crosslinkable monomer having an aromatic group and two or more vinyl groups bonded to the aromatic group; and a coating layer coating at least part of the surface of the porous polymer. The coating layer contains a first graft chain that is a polymer having a hydroxyl group bonded to the crosslinked polymer, and a second graft chain that is a polymer having a hydroxyl group, bonded to the first graft chain, and being different from the first graft chain.

A synthetic polymeric porous medium with a core-shell(s) hierarchical layer structure and has an essentially homogeneous porous structure from inside to outside of the medium, whose core and shell(s) are covalently modified with distinct chemical functional groups or same functional group with different density. Here the methodologies for resin syntheses and core-shell(s) modifications and liquid chromatographic applications of the newly developed resins in the field of analysis and purification of Tween surfactants, virus-like particles (VLP)/vaccines/viral vectors/viruses, antibody, and mRNA are disclosed.

Provided are a method of purifying an alpha-olefin and a composition for purifying an alpha-olefin therefor. More specifically, a method of purifying an alpha-olefin having an excellent effect of removing impurities in the alpha-olefin and a composition for purifying an alpha-olefin therefor are provided.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a porous monolith polymeric composition having utility in catalysis, chromatography, filtration, and electro-kinetic pumps, devices incorporating such composition and methods or making and using such monoliths. The monoliths are characterized by a substantially homogeneous skeletal core with little shrinkage, few voids and few channels.

An adsorption material which includes a carbon nanohorn aggregate in which a plurality of single-walled carbon nanohorns aggregate in a fibrous state, particularly coexisting a globular carbon nanohorn aggregate and some of the single-walled carbon nanohorns included in the carbon nanohorn aggregate have an opening portion, is used. The adsorption material including such a fibrous carbon nanohorn aggregate is produced by a method including: preparing an inert gas atmosphere, a nitrogen gas atmosphere or a mixed atmosphere in a vessel in which a catalyst-containing carbon target is placed; and evaporating the target to obtain a carbon nanohorn aggregate including a fibrous carbon nanohorn aggregate in which a plurality of single-walled carbon nanohorns aggregate in a fibrous state.